@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus I actually can buy they were flying in circles, that the Uncharted Territories is the interstellar equivalent of the Caribbean: a lot of different places you can go (and hide), but any given Point A to Point B isn't really that far.

Plus, it takes the "logical conclusion" aspect many sf shows ignore; John is basically saying, "Hey, remember when we met those guys with that thing?  Wouldn't THAT be REALLY USEFUL right now?"

Space Geography in Sci-fi is one of my obsessions, so it does drive me a little crazy here.  There's a bit of handwavium (possibly tied to Pilot being now properly integrated into Moya) of NOW they have decent maps of where they are, but… yeah.  You kind of have to believe they've mostly been driving around in circles…

"Friends Like These" gives us the sort of plot-jazz that Farscape's make-it-up-as-they-go allows.   All those one-off bad guys from the first season?  Bring them all together for a Space Oceans 11 caper!  Because why not?  The geography is… problematic, but the payoff of making the universe feel more cohesive balances…

You know why it's funny?  Because it shows that most DC Universe people really don't care that much about their superheroes, they just take them for granted.  Because… it's not just that they don't know who Booster Gold is.  To make that mistake you also have to not care about who Green Lantern is either. Which I…

One of the fascinating things about Season 2 is how it makes the Harvey Chip into Crichton's trump card.  Three times— LatP, Won't Get Fooled and here— it saves him in a situation where otherwise he would have been killed or worse.

See, my interpretation was it was some sort of human-made next-level project.  Like, "We're moving on to X, and to do so, we need to open jumpgates inside our own sun."  Sort of the intergalactic equivalent of tearing down the old country road to build a superhighway.

Shipping was a thing, but it wasn't really much of a B5 thing.  Mostly because Sheridan/Delenn was clearly set up on a low simmer since early Season 2.  It's not like people were all Sheridan/Ivanova or Delenn/Londo instead.  You knew where it was going in that regard.

With everything else, I forgot to mention this one: this was a pretty clever way to stage Sheridan and Delenn's "first" kiss.

For all we knock JMS here… you have to admit it's quite rare of a TV Exec, then or now, to just flat out say, "Yeah, that episode was horrible.  My bad, really.  All me. Sorry."

David always struck me as a failed Chekhov Gun. Foreshadowed and never paying off.

Yeah, but, "We won, but your lifespan won't be AS long as it might have been" is hardly "the terrible price".  It's not like he paid for it with Quality of Life.  He was fine, healthy and hearty, until he just… stopped.

No, it was pretty damn clear.  And since I saw far too much Little House as a kid (my sister was a HUGE fan), I knew Melissa Gilbert's voice right off the bat.

You kind of have to love that while holo-Delenn and the others are having existential crises of being nothing but a bunch of 1s and 0s, Garibaldi is all, "I'm nothing but 1s and 0s… awesome."

I never really thought about it before, but Delenn takes the complete theoogical bombshell to her faith pretty calmly.

I do have to give a lot of credit to JMS for the plotting improv-jazz he does here to paste over what was clearly a huge wrench in the works in losing O'Hare after the first season.  It works pretty damn well, which is impressive given that the Original Plan clearly had a lot of differences in it.  Especially since…

I have to admit, when Piper mentioned in her flashback being bitten by a homeless person's dog, I suspected/feared that her story there would dovetail with Tricia's.  I was pleased to be proven wrong about that.

@disqus_wallflower:disqus I haven't taken a slug to the face since sixth grade, if that's what you're asking. But that may be more due my adroitness at the dodge and weave.

Ah, but— especially in these episodes— the antagonist is really CSC Corp itself.  JJ is a feckless face of that, but is retreat does signal their loss of power as an antagonist.  Heck, we constantly hear of Luthor, a man who clearly could kill the show or fire any individual working on it on a whim— but he never…

Ah, but, he does write People Who Don't Feel Strongly About Those Things And Don't Get Why Someone Would, which often can work as an antagonist, especially when he makes that person someone in power.  I think JJ and the other network people fit in that category.